When Washington and his brother Barbados tried to help cure Lawrence of tuberculosis but in that effort Lawrence died in 1752. After they returned. Washington inherited the Mount Vernon estate I. Which he expanded to about 7,300 acres by 1799.
Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis when she was twenty six year old on January 1759. She had two Children John Parke and Martha Park Custis with Daniel Parke Custis. They were one of the greatest fortunes in Virginia. Washington was name their legal Guardian two years later and devoted his time and energy over the next sixteen years managing the Custis estate.
Washing’s domestic life was one of a lot of issues. He the master of Mount Vernon thus became one of the wealthiest planters in Virginia> Washington’s life were probably happiest although he and Martha had no children of their own, the couple raised Martha’s children, and later two of her grandchildren Eleanor and George Washington Parke Custis.
He enjoyed the displays to manifest their social status by maintaining a lavish lifestyle. Such as renovating his mansion the latest style and filling it with the finest furnishing, stocking his cellars with vintage Madeira, getting the best-breed and blooded horses for his stables.
In George Washington period was a time of fighting for freedom for a New Nation and Politics and war. Washington first build a Military in the French and Indian War. He volunteered to investigate reports of French encroachments on Virginia’s western frontier that threatened the interests of colony’s great land speculators. Upon the return to Williamsburg pf his small party from the shores of Lake Erie in January 1754, a four month long expedition.
In May he became commander of the Virginia Regiment at twenty one year old and received poplar recognition. He raised to oppose the French in the Ohio River Valley. The French retaliation for an attack on a small party across the Alleghenies provided his first defeat.
Washington learned much from the professionalism of British generals Edward Braddock and John Forbes. That he served and earned a military reputation under. He gains courage and coolness under fire. He also developed a resentment of the British officials because they denied him the regular army pay in which he aspired and proper respect for the contributions made by provincial troops in general and his Virginia Regiment in particular.
In the American Revolution Washington took the troops that surrounded the British that occupied Boston on July 3. He devoted the next few months to training an undisciplined 14,000 man army. To secure supplies of powder and weapons they urgently needed. In March 1776 he secretly fortified Dorchester Heights and compelled British forces to evacuate Boston.
At Yorktown in 1781 he completed a successful siege operation in the traditional European style and captured Lord Cornwallis's entire army; he later celebrated in typical understatement by naming one of his favorite greyhounds after the earl. Washington bid farewell to his comrades in arms in 1783. Then resigned his Continental commission, and retired to private life.
In Washington return to Mount Vernon was not for long. After the states finish building a new government. Washington to take office in April 30, 1789 in New York City. He is cared to act carefully and deliberately. He is aware of the need to build an executive structure that could help other future presidents.
In the hope to keep the states better together and not dividing the new nation. He toured the New England states in 1789 and the South in 1791. Washington was reelected once again in 1792. In the year that following Washington has to deal with the crisis of arising conflict with the War between England and France. This is settling with the 1794 Jay’s Treaty.
The importance of George Washington to the United States was that without Washington effect. The United States could never be held, and be as strong as it is today. Washington as a leader of the army in the American Revolution was a most help and prove to be a wise chose for the US. He helped keeping the Union together for it birth into the world.
He presence was undoubtedly a stabilizing influence in the delegate in 1774-5 to the First and Second Continental Congress and helped the fight for independence. He helps setup the country first financial system. When he left office the Country financial system was well established.
Reference:
Washington Commander in Chief - Publication Title: Washington, Commander in Chief . Contributors: Thomas G. Frothingham - author. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company. Place of Publication: Boston. Page Number: i. Publication Year: 1930.